Honore de Balzac Quotes
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
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The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
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And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
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Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.
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I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.
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A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.
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I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
